Originally posted by: Nothinman
But the OP was also talking about using Dynamic Disks which are the base for MS' software RAID, the underlying controller's abilities are irrelevant at that point.
all I want to be able to do is resize my XP partitions on the fly without having to use PM and reboot and wait 6 hours.
Please don't take this as criticism....but are you sure you really need four partitions on your RAID 1 data drive?Originally posted by: sao123
all I want to be able to do is resize my XP partitions on the fly without having to use PM and reboot and wait 6 hours.
You DO back up your RAID 1 partitions, right?i find myself at different times having to adjust the size of the partitions on my Raid 1... depending on the amount and type of files I am saving at a particular time.
[Which with partition magic is a long process (and sometimes scary of losing data)...]
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Please don't take this as criticism....but are you sure you really need four partitions on your RAID 1 data drive?Originally posted by: sao123
all I want to be able to do is resize my XP partitions on the fly without having to use PM and reboot and wait 6 hours.
Normally, the first thing you'd do with partitions is separate your OS and your data. That makes it possible to re-install or repair the OS without restoring your data, and keeps users from accidentally overflowing the drive and crashing the operating system. But you've already separated the OS with a separate RAID 0 partition.
While partitioning a data drive can, theoretically, speed up certain types of data access and can have some other theoretical benefits, I'd ask whether it's worth the effort that it takes frequenty resize partitions.You DO back up your RAID 1 partitions, right?i find myself at different times having to adjust the size of the partitions on my Raid 1... depending on the amount and type of files I am saving at a particular time.
[Which with partition magic is a long process (and sometimes scary of losing data)...]
I have partitions because I have different types of data... its more of an organizational thing than a performance thing.
From an organizational point of view, having four partitions on one drive is no better than having four folders in the root folder of one partition on the same drive. The folder method is much more flexible, and has none of the problems that partitions have in terms of needing to be resized and moved around if your storage space needs change over time.Originally posted by: sao123
I have partitions because I have different types of data... its more of an organizational thing than a performance thing.
My H drive is for my MP3's
My P Drive is for all my install files, patches, & drivers
My Q Drive is for my CD iso's
My T drive is for my personal files & documents
i backup as much as I can to DVD's.